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Watching Bob Kerrey, who seems to be emotionally unhinged, and Richard Ben Veniste, the lamest specimen of showboating hack, badgering Condoleeza Rice the other day, I understood more clearly why the Islamists despise the west. The 9/11 commission represents the very worst traits of American government: arthritic, retroactive, portentous, posturing, pseudo-legalistic, victimologically inclined, and utterly irrelevant to what we old-fashioned types still like to call the real world. By contrast, the Hutton inquiry in Britain was a model of intellectual focus and presentational restraint. As to “BUSH’S FAILURE TO ACT!!!!” on a feeble August memo of Islamism For Dummies generalities,...

Democratic 9/11 commissioner Bob Kerrey made an early departure from the commission's long-anticipated session with President Bush and Vice President Cheney only to find himself waiting for what turned out to be a late, and very brief, meeting on Capitol Hill. Now, Kerrey says that if he had it do over again, he would not have left the White House in the first place. Kerrey had scheduled a meeting at noon Thursday with New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici, a member of the Appropriations Committee, at Domenici's office in the Hart Senate Office Building (the two were to discuss an...

Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey and one-time Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton have destroyed what little credibility the 9/11 commission had left. Thanks to their premature departure from Thursday's White House evidentiary hearing with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, which the commission whined for months was absolutely vital to its work, Americans learned beyond any doubt that this investigation is merely bureaucratic wheel-spinning and political grandstanding. In the middle of receiving the testimony, Mr. Kerrey took a powder because he was due at Capitol Hill to twist arms for more dough for his New School University in Manhattan. Mr. Hamilton...

<p>May 1, 2004 -- Yesterday's Post.Democratic 9/11 commission member Bob Kerrey apologized yesterday to the families of the terror victims for dashing out in the middle of the panel's Oval Office interview with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.</p>

<p>Republican lawmakers said yesterday that by walking out of their meeting Thursday with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney early, some members of the September 11 commission did more damage to the panel's credibility.</p> <p>"It's amazing to me that after the focus that the commission has put on that meeting, the insistence that every commissioner be allowed to attend, and that the president give whatever time the commission thought was necessary, that commissioners wouldn't stay," said House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, Missouri Republican.</p>

Sept. 11 commissioners thought they were limited to 2 hours with Bush 2 hours, 19 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) - The Sept. 11 commission said Friday it went into its private interview with President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Vice-President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) with the understanding it would be restricted to about two hours. The disclosure, which came amid questions as to why two Democratic commissioners left the three-hour meeting early, appears to contradict the suggestion by the Bush administration in March that it wouldn't be setting time limits amounting to one hour each...

Back in February 1992, John Kerry stood up on the Senate floor, "driven by personal reasons of necessity." He professed to be saddened by then-Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey's criticism during the Democratic primaries of Bill Clinton's lack of service in Vietnam. "We do not need to divide America over who served and how," Kerry said. "I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways." Kerry's "personal reasons of necessity" always have to do with what is personally necessary to serve his ambition at any given moment. And whenever he says, "I have personally always believed [fill in...

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney answered every question on Thursday from the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, a meeting that both the White House and the 9/11 commission had billed as historic. The Oval Office session began at 9:30 a.m. and ended at 12:40 p.m., but two Democrat commission members -- Lee Hamilton, the vice chairman, and Bob Kerrey -- walked out before it was over! The stunning walk out -- after Democrats had complained that Bush was not alloting enough time for questions -- has ignited talk throughout official Washington. In a written statement, Kerrey said...

<p>April 30, 2004 -- We never thought former Sen. Bob Kerrey was taking seriously his responsibilities to the national 9/11 commission. But his insulting mid-meeting abandonment of President Bush's sitdown with the body yesterday was beyond the beyond. Kerrey and fellow Democrat Lee Hamilton bugged out early from the three-hour sitdown - each pleading "a prior engagement" - while Bush and Vice President Cheney sat calmly and answered the commission's questions.</p>

<p>April 30, 2004 -- In a stunning snub, two Democrats on the 9/11 commission yesterday abruptly walked out in the middle of the Oval Office interview with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Both early-departing panelists, former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey and ex-Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, insisted they had prior commitments - but their sudden slip out the side door of the White House left Washington and some fellow commission members in shock.</p>

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Forget Jamie Gorelick. The member of the 9/11 Commission who most deserves the boot — or at least the swiftest kick in the pants — is former Senator Bob Kerrey. The man who told PBS newsman Jim Lehrer four years ago that he needed to retire from political life because "it's time for me to breathe some private air" now won't stop polluting the public's airspace. In the past month alone, he has penned blabbermouth op-eds for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times and logged appearances on CBS's Face the Nation, CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports, NBC's Today Show...

Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2004 12:13 AM EDTBob Kerrey: Clinton's 9/11 Testimony 'Much Different' From Prior Account After reviewing a transcript of remarks by former President Bill Clinton describing how he handled the al Qaeda threat in the late 1990s, former Sen. Bob Kerrey said Monday that the ex-president's testimony to the 9/11 Commission was "much different." Calling the transcript "extremely helpful," Kerrey, a member of the 9/11 Commission, told WDAY Fargo, North Dakota radio host Scott Hennen that Clinton's comments were "much different than what we heard last week" during a behind closed doors interview. Kerry said that the Commission...

When ex-President Clinton told the 9/11 Commission last Thursday that he never admitted to turning down an offer for Osama bin Laden's extradition to the U.S., the Commission had already obtained a videotape of him making those remarks to the Long Island Association in Woodbury, New York, during the group's annual luncheon in February 2002. "The 9/11 Commission put in a formal request for the videotape more than a month ago," Gary Wojtas, Communications Director of the Long Island Association, told NewsMax.com Tuesday morning. "And we did supply it to them." Asked if he was prepared to make the Clinton...

This is how Bob Kerrey, a member of the 9-11 Commission and former Democratic senator from Nebraska, opened his questioning of Condoleezza Rice before the Commission last week:"Thank you, Dr. Rice. Let me say at the beginning I'm very impressed, and indeed I'd go as far as to say moved by your story, the story of your life and what you've accomplished. It's quite extraordinary."It is widely believed in universities and in the media that conservatives are more likely than liberals to be racist and sexist. I have long believed that the opposite is true, that most Democratic politicians and...

Sean's BLASTING Kerrey, for concocting lies on behalf of Klinton... Saying the 911 committee is a sham. Saying Kerrey is making up excuses for Klinton... Go Sean...

Former United States Senator Bob Kerry, a possible contender for the White House in 2004, has admitted that his commando unit massacred civilians when he was a Navy officer in Vietnam, The New York Times has reported. Mr Kerry was awarded a Bronze Star for the 25 February 1969 action in the village of Thanh Phong in the Mekong Delta. Basically you're talking about a man who killed innocent civilians Bob Kerry The two-time Democratic senator from Nebraska says his unit of seven Navy Seals - elite commando troops - killed at least 13 women and children during indiscriminate night-time...

Fighting the Wrong War By BOB KERREY Published: April 11, 2004 t Thursday's hearing before the 9/11 commission, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, gave a triumphal presentation. She was a spectacular witness. I was a tough critic of some of her answers and assertions, though I believe I was at least as tough with the national security adviser for President Clinton. At the beginning and end of every criticism I have made in this process, I have also offered this disclaimer: anyone who was in Congress, as I was during the critical years leading up to Sept. 11,...

It what could turn out to be his most outrageous falsehood yet, ex-President Bill Clinton has told the 9/11 Commission that he never admitted passing up a chance to have Osama bin Laden arrested - even though his words were caught on tape. As NewsMax.com reported Friday afternoon, 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey revealed the Clinton denial to WDAY Fargo, North Dakota radio host Scott Hennen for an interview set for broadcast Monday. NewsMax.com has obtained a full transcript of Kerrey's comments to Hennen, a portion of which was first publicized by national radio host Sean Hannity. The transcript shows the...

STATEMENT OF BOB KERREY, PRESIDENT, NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY, and FORMER UNITED STATES SENATOR MR. BOB KERREY: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Senator Wellstone, Senator Thomas, it's nice to see both of you again. Danny Pleka (ph) is very persuasive, and it's nice to have a chance to come back, especially to talk on this particular subject. Mr. Chairman, I have a longer statement that's a bit mangled, but I'd like to ask that it be put in the record. SEN. WELLSTONE: It will be, without objection. MR. KERREY: And I'll try not to drag this out too long. First,...